Ukrainian Sunrise

Kateryna Zarembo is a Ukrainian policy analyst, university  lecturer, writer, and a mother of four. She holds an MA in European  Studies from University College Dublin (Ireland) and a PhD from the  National Institute for Strategic Studies (Kyiv, Ukraine). Her  professional path combines three passions of hers: policy analysis, academic research, and literature. She taught at the Central European University,  Technical  University of Darmstadt, National University of Kyiv-Mohyla  Academy, and the Ukrainian Catholic University and published in a  variety of international outlets on the topics of international relations,  security issues, and civil society. She is an associate fellow at the New  Europe Center and a volunteer with the Medical battalion “Hospitallers.”

“Understanding the true story of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts has never been more important. Ukrainian Sunrise reads like a scholarly work, yet the way it is written remains accessible to a broad audience. Zarembo’s approach ensures that the voices of those in Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts are heard directly—she serves not as an interpreter, but as a conduit for their stories.”—Kate Tsurkan, The Kyiv Independent

• Preface. The Ukrainian East: Forget everything (you thought) you knew about Donbas Chapter 1. The myth of Donbas: An attempt at deconstructionWhat the mines hideDonbas and the Ukrainian language: A river filled with stones The myth of separatism: “The autonomy we didn’t want”Chapter 2. The story of Poshtovkh“We only needed ten more years”The fight for Vasyl StusChapter 3. The “interrupted renaissance” of Donbas: Art as protest and protest as artThe founder of Donetsk’s poetry slamLuhansk’s STAN: art against the regimeIsolyatsia: A reinterpretationChapter 4. The outskirts of Europe: Does European Donbas exist? Ambivalent EuroscepticismNATO and EU in Donetsk The Euromaidans of Ukrainian EastChapter 5. The villages of Ukraine’s East as carriers of Ukrainian markersThe Halychany of Donbas. ZvanivkaThe Aeneid on the H20 highway. Oleksandro-KalynoveChapter 6. “Go set a watchman”: Protestants, Orthodox Christians, Greek-Catholic Christians, and Muslims of Ukraine’s EastProtestants: A conversionThe Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kyiv patriarchate: A confrontationThe Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church: Providence Muslims: A choiceAn Almost-Afterword. Shakhtar Donetsk FC, soccer, and the role of ultras in the fight for the countryAfterword. In a train compartment with people from Donetsk, or Where Ukraine’s sun risesKey sources